"Thank goodness we don't have only serious problems, but ridiculous ones as well."

-- Edsger Dijkstra

#Serious Quotes #Ridiculous Quotes #Problem Quotes

“My first Western was called The Magnificent Seven.”
“The funniest things just come from honesty. We have a tendency to see female characters as representative of something larger than what they are, when male characters are just characters.”
“The redefined physician is human, knows she's human, accepts it ... and she works in a culture of medicine that acknowledges that human beings run the system.”
“I believe strongly that in order to compete against VOD, the Internet - any competition - exhibition has to achieve higher standards, more comfort in everything.”

Source : Source: variety.com
“From the point of view of the pure morphologist the recapitulation theory is an instrument of research enabling him to reconstruct probable lines of descent; from the standpoint of the student of development and heredity the fact of recapitulation is a difficult problem whose solution would perhaps give the key to a true understanding of the real nature of heredity.”
“Over the past three years, we'd become each other's habit. And though he'd broken his habit of me when he walked away, I'd not broken my habit of him.”
“Hills are terrific for running”
“The wretcheder one is, the more one smokes; and the more one smokes, the wretcheder one gets-a vicious circle.”

Source : George Du Maurier (2012). “Peter Ibbetson”, p.119, tredition

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